Comments on: what camera would you say is best for recording concerts? http://desdelaxarxa.net/concerts-in/what-camera-would-you-say-is-best-for-recording-concerts Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:50:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Daniel K http://desdelaxarxa.net/concerts-in/what-camera-would-you-say-is-best-for-recording-concerts/comment-page-1#comment-6789 Daniel K Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:09:59 +0000 http://desdelaxarxa.net/concerts-in/what-camera-would-you-say-is-best-for-recording-concerts#comment-6789 Little Dog is right. If you don't want to buy a new camera or recording device right away, you might try covering the microphones on your camera with a layer or two of masking tape. You will need to experiment but it does work pretty well sometimes.<br><b>References : </b><br> Little Dog is right.

If you don’t want to buy a new camera or recording device right away, you might try covering the microphones on your camera with a layer or two of masking tape. You will need to experiment but it does work pretty well sometimes.
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]]> By: Little Dog http://desdelaxarxa.net/concerts-in/what-camera-would-you-say-is-best-for-recording-concerts/comment-page-1#comment-6788 Little Dog Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:56:59 +0000 http://desdelaxarxa.net/concerts-in/what-camera-would-you-say-is-best-for-recording-concerts#comment-6788 The "best" will be any device with manual audio control. The automatic audio gain control in any camcorder get overpowered by loud audio resulting in clipping and that muddy and static sound. Correctly using manual audio control prevents that clipping because it bypasses the auto mic gain control. The least expensive current camcorders - of which I am aware - with manual audio control are the Canon HV30 and the Sony HDR-HC9. They are well outside your budget. An alternative is to keep using the camcorder you are using and get an external audio recording device - a field recorder - like those from Zoom, Edirol, Marantz, Sony, and others. When you edit the video, import the audio from the field recorder, sync the audio, then mute the audio that came in with the video.<br><b>References : </b><br> The "best" will be any device with manual audio control. The automatic audio gain control in any camcorder get overpowered by loud audio resulting in clipping and that muddy and static sound.

Correctly using manual audio control prevents that clipping because it bypasses the auto mic gain control. The least expensive current camcorders - of which I am aware - with manual audio control are the Canon HV30 and the Sony HDR-HC9. They are well outside your budget.

An alternative is to keep using the camcorder you are using and get an external audio recording device - a field recorder - like those from Zoom, Edirol, Marantz, Sony, and others. When you edit the video, import the audio from the field recorder, sync the audio, then mute the audio that came in with the video.
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